What nice tools are available for cross platform patch management?
Must be able to generate monthly reports. (needed for compliance)

I think Automox is something you will want to look at. They were at SW last year and I expect them to be back this year. We've got a few Automox people here in the community (most of them predate Automox and have joined them since being here.)

Automox is a cloud native cyber hygiene platform. You can patch, deploy software, enforce policies, and a whole lot more across Windows, Linux, and Mac including servers. You can pull a report as needed as well. Don't want to get too salesy but happy to talk more.

I am indeed at Automox now. We're building a community for our user base to share tips and scripts that you can run through our agent. Once the community is out of beta I'll announce it here so you can check it out. In the meantime if you want a trial of the product to check it out, let me or Richard know and we can get you setup.

I am indeed at Automox now. We're building a community for our user base to share tips and scripts that you can run through our agent. Once the community is out of beta I'll announce it here so you can check it out. In the meantime if you want a trial of the product to check it out, let me or Richard know and we can get you setup.

I am indeed at Automox now. We're building a community for our user base to share tips and scripts that you can run through our agent. Once the community is out of beta I'll announce it here so you can check it out. In the meantime if you want a trial of the product to check it out, let me or Richard know and we can get you setup.

Welcome back to IT...

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If you do use Ansible, I'd use Jenkins over AWX/Tower. There is a reporting tool called ARA that gives you per play and per node reports. You can also use a callback plugin to pipe to logs or other systems for reports.

There is also a library that Larry Smith wrote. Here's a link to the PR https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39340. I just copied what he wrote and put it in my libraries folder so I can use it as a custom module. This module will actually clone a template for you. Here's his example: